Frame for stacking straw.



. BOUGHAN.

FRAME FOR STACKING STRAW.

APPUCATION FILED JAN. 27. I915.

Patented July 6, 1915.

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A. L. BOUGHAN.

FRAME FOR STACKING STRAW.

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A. L. BOUGHAN.

FRAME FOR STACKING STRAW.

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ARCHIE L. BOUGI-IAN, OF CANTON, ILLINOIS.

FRAME FOR STACKING STRAW.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 6, 1915 Application filed. January 27, 1915. Serial No. 4,781.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ARCHIE L. BOUGHAN,

a citizen of the United States, residing at Canton, in the county of Fulton and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Frames for Stacking Straw, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to receptacles for receiving and protecting the straw from threshing machines, and adapted to receive the straw from the stacker conveyer of the threshing machine and retain the same in uniform shape, and protect the straw from damage or from being blown about by the wind.

Another object of the invention is to provide a simply constructed device which may be increased or decreased in size as required, and constructed in sections whereby. the device may be enlarged by adding sections thereto.

Another object of the invention is to provide a device which may be dismembered for transportation. or storage and quickly erected wherever required.

With these and other objects in View the invention consists in certain novel features of construction as hereafter shown and described, and then specifically pointed out in the claims; and in the drawings illustrative of the preferred embodiment of the invention Figure 1 is a plan view of the improved device; Fig. 2 is an elevation of the same; Fig. 3 is an enlarged end view; Fig. 4 is a side elevation on the same scale as Fig. 3, illustrating the construction more fully. In Figs. 3 and 4, the wire netting panels are shown in position while in Figs. 1 and 2 the wire netting panels are removed; Fig. 5 is a plan view of a portion of the frame of one of the terminal sections, illustrating its construction; Fig. 6 is a side view of the parts shown in Fig. 5; Fig. 7 is a detail of a portion of the frame, illustrating the arrangement of one of the tie braces or rods; Fig. 8 is a plan of the parts shown in Fig. 7.

Corresponding and like parts are referred to in the following description andv indicated in all the views of the accompanying drawings by the same reference characters.

The straw conveyer or discharge portion of a threshing machine is usually arranged to swing upon a turn-table and deposit the straw in a semi-circle, thus forming a semicircular stack. This is true whether the conveyer is of pneumatic form or of the slatted belt form, and the improved device is adapted equally for use in connection with any of the ordinary straw discharge devices of a threshing machine. When the straw is deposited in a semi-circular stack it is liable to be scattered by the wind, becomes loosened, and is exposed to the elements and thus deteriorated.

The improved device is designed to retain the straw, in a compact condition and in symmetrical form so that it is protected from injury by the elements or from being blown away by the wind.

The improved device comprises a receptacle for the straw constructed of an open metal frame work, preferably of gas or steam piping, and galvanized or otherwise protected from corrosion. The frame work is preferably formed in angular sections, corresponding when united to the sweep of the straw delivering mechanism of the thresher, and adapted to be united end to end to. in-

crease or decrease the length of the receptacle,

and likewise arranged to be adjusted laterally to increase or decrease the width of the receptacle. The receptacle is likewise suitably braced and supported to prevent collapse when empty and likewise to prevent outward displacement by the pressure of the straw when full. The receptacle is preferably formed widest at the bottom with the sides converging toward the top and with the outer portions of the sections highest to facilitate the entrance of the straw from the conveyer.

The improved apparatus includes inwardly inclined terminal supporting members 10 and intermediate supporting mem bers 11. Any required number of the intermediate supporting members may be employed depending upon the number of the sections of the apparatus, but for the purpose of illustration two of the intermediate supporting members are shown, thus providing for a structure having three sections or portions. The members 10 are provided with a plurality of sleeves 12 spaced any suitable distance apart, depending upon the length of the members 10. Generally the members 10 will be from 14 to 16 feet in length, and the lowest sleeves 12 of each of the members 10 will belocated a short distance above the ground, indicated conventionally at 13, and the members 10 and 11 

